Pharmacy Supervisor - South Lebanon- Nabatieh - 100% Activity rate

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in 1971. Today, MSF provides independent, impartial assistance in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, and exclusion from health care or natural disasters. MSF in Lebanon currently has 2 projects mainly on primary health care and mental health, in Nabatiyeh and the Bekaa valley.

MSF is committed to achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion within its workforce irrespective of gender, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, culture, religious and ethnic backgrounds. All job applications will be treated in strictest confidence.

Accountabilities:

• Ensuring storage, stock management and supply processes, as well as hygiene and security procedures, tools, and protocols (controlling pests and rodents), implementing appropriate quality controls and records, in order to ensure good storage conditions (temperatures, humidity and light exposure) and availability of drugs and medical material, according to MSF protocols, national regulations and in cooperation with the logistics department.
• Coordinating the delivery, reception and recording of international and local orders, in close coordination with the logistics department, updating stock files and informing line managers on their status (shortfalls, over-stocking, expiry dates), in order to permanently ensure security stock levels and ensure efficient management of stock.
• Supervising orders of medical and drug material in order to ensure an efficient and appropriate consumption pattern under budget constraints.
• Supervising the supply of drugs to patients, according to medical prescriptions, informing them on consumption patterns and keeping conditions in order to ensure their therapeutic progression
• Ensuring efficient supply to other pharmacies managed/supported by MSF according to orders and stocks and using cold chain when needed. Monitoring and analysing orders of depending on pharmacies in order to avoid ruptures of stock or having expired drugs.
• Supervising, with the HR department, the associated processes (sizing, staff shifts, recruitment, training, performance evaluation, development and internal/external communication) of the pharmaceutical team and the nursing staff, in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required and to improve their dispensing capabilities.
• Recording all items received and issued in computer (Isystock) and reporting on drug consumptions and medical equipment dispensed according to protocols, informing on unusual patterns as well as forecasting future needs, in order to rationalise the budget and to ensure availability.

Assisting in training of nursing staff regarding dispensing of drugs and their side effects

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

• Ensuring storage, stock management and supply processes, as well as hygiene and security procedures, tools, and protocols (controlling pests and rodents)
• Coordinating the delivery, reception and recording of international and local orders.
• Ensuring efficient supply to MMUs boxes according to orders requested and stocks available.

• Keep isystock updated and reported regularly with back up files to PMR and mission pharmacist.
• With collaboration with Mission pharmacist develop the monthly report MSF standard way to give full overview of the project stock (available stock, near expiries, ruptures and overstock).
• Analyze the project's stock monthly and share it with PMR and PharmaCO monthly.
• Ensure that the consumption of medical items in the project matches the medical data.
• Ensure that the project utilizes medical items in a rational manner.
• After each inventory, share the inventory report with the PMR and Pharmaco.

Requirements:

• Education:   Essential degree of pharmacy . desirable Valid pharmacy license 
• Experience: At least one year of professional experience as a pharmacist.
• Languages: Mission language and local language essential
• Knowledge: Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)

 Competencies :  
•    Results and Quality Orientation L2 
•    Teamwork and Cooperation L2 
•    Behavioural Flexibility L2 
•    Commitment to MSF Principles L2 
•    Stress Management L3